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Pssssst. . . Do you want to get dirty? Gem Trails of British Columbia is sure to get you out onto the back roads and up to your knees in sand and rocks looking for hidden gems. Appealing to the strike-it-rich spirit in all of us, this guide will inspire you to grab a pick and a pan and hit the dirt. Highlighting the best southern British Columbia has to offer, detailed text describes where to go and what to look for at numerous collecting area. Author Cam Bacon calls upon years of experience to offer readers invaluable information, easy-to-follow directional and helpful hints. The book is split into nine sections that cover regions containing a variety of specimens. These regions could be explored over a weekend or for a week. Maps for each site lead the rockhound to prime locations for gems, minerals and fossils. Black and white photos throughout the guide aid in the identification of the correct turnoffs, collecting areas and campgrounds. This thorough, yet concise, volume is an outstanding source of old and new sites - perfect for the day pack of outdoor lover ready to unearth treasures and adventure. 96 Pages, 44 B/W Photos & 44 Line Maps Throughout.

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Learn more about the geological history of the rocks around you! This colorful, educational map presents state/regional surface rock outcrop information?age, depositional environment, rock type, and names of formations. Includes major highways, towns, and landmarks. Printed on a single sheet and folded to glove compartment size, has a stratigraphic column by state, mileage charts. Scale: 1 inch=30 miles. Washington and Oregon. Revised 1995.

The definitive guide to rocks and minerals, completely updated for the fifth edition, includes 385 color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and geologic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures.

Learn about rock and mineral formation, tools, identification, finding minerals in the field, legal aspects preparation and preservation, cutting and polishing, and making jewelry from your finds. Numerous illustrations and B/W photos. Color photos highlight over 50 of the most commonly encountered minerals. Beyond the possibility of making a new find or valuable discovery, rock and mineral collecting is an inexpensive hobby that is an excellent activity for all ages. It also offers the opportunity to explore landscapes as diverse as the rocks and minerals found there.Written by the author of the Gem Trails series, The Rockhound's Handbook is an indispensable how-to book for the beginner, and a handy reference guide for the experienced collector.

Tumbling made plain and simple tells you IN PLAIN LANGUAGE...How to load your machine, select the correct abrasives, compounds, tumbling speeds and intensities. How to use carriers, medias, fillers, additive thickeners, suspension agents, pre-polishing agents. burnishing ...and the list goes on and on. Before you learn to fly...better learn how to ride. So lets start at the beginning...and if you are already an expert..then you can skip this part of the book.
Anyone can learn how to tumble polish...if you follow the rules, keep a simple log of your tumbling operations, and remember..tumbling won't produce good results on bad materials. So were going to give you basic rules to follow.
Covered are: basic types of tumbling equipment, how they differ in operation, locating and selecting materials, medias, carriers and fillers, abrasives, polishing compounds, and loading the tumbler correctly, for best results!
Third Edition, Thirteenth Printing, October 2013. (Third Edition dated 2005, and revised in 2006)
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Newly revised and updated, The Gem & Mineral Collector's Guide to Idaho now combines Volume I and Volume II into one handy rockhounding guide. From Bathtub Mountain and Ruby Rapids to Paris Canyon and Cinder Butte, the author will lead the collector to over 40 of the best mineral, fossil, and gemstone sites Idaho has to offer. Find the best spot in Rabbit Springs to find agate-filled thundereggs or where to hunt for precious opal in Spencer.

A comprehensive list of Bureau of Land Management agencies and National Forest Services throughout the state is included to aid in planning your collecting adventure. Complete with individual site maps, an overview map, detailed directions, and black and white photos.

The Gem & Mineral Collector's Guide to Idaho is the essential guide for rockhounding in Idaho.

For the last two decades, Lanny Ream has been writing and publishing books on the minerals and "popular geology" of the Northwest, and publishes a monthly newspaper for mineral collector's - Mineral News.

Washington State is within the top 10 producers of gemstones in the nation. Rockhounding is an important economic activity in the state. This package contains 5 maps, 17 1/2 by 23 inches printed on both sides. These old maps are reproduced from authentic documents from the National Archives. Reported and known occurrences of gold and silver, as well as the popular gem deposits are identified in red. Imagine 100 years of information compiled and printed on a modern USGS map!

This guide is intended to show some of the much-prized rocks and minerals of the northwest. Some are valued for their beauty when cut and polished. Others are prized for the economic value of the metals they contain, such as copper in chalcopyrite, or of some physical property of the mineral itself, such as the fibrous nature of asbestos. Still other minerals are valued for their crystal form, or simply as examples of the great diversity in the mineral kingdom. 33 pages, color pictures.

Author Sid Wayland examines common minerals and elements, discussing their visible properties and chemical makeups as well as how to identify specimens through a number of tests that can be performed at home or in the field.